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Plott, creators of the “LetsPlott” Platform – the world’s only DIY platform that allows users to take their real design concepts into the AR realm and back to reality with precise measurements and calculations, is celebrating CES 2020 with the availability of Carta, the first digital measuring wheel to virtually map any outdoor space. Utilizing the revolutionary LetsPlott platform, winner of the Best of Innovation AR/VR in the CES 2019 Innovation Awards, Carta lets users create maps in real-time and instantly calculate distance, perimeter and area, ensuring accurate measurements for virtually any outdoor project, including landscaping, construction, road building and more.
At its core, Plott completely eliminates the strenuous labor of measuring objects or spaces by hand so users can easily take on projects with greater ease and efficiency. Plott’s extended reality (XR) platform and accompanying hardware, now including Cubit and Carta, brings real world elements and dimensions into the LetsPlott app, a design center for conceptualizing and measuring the project virtually in AR. From idea, to design, then back to reality, Plott provides the ideal tools for anyone from the beginner DIY landscaper to professional construction worker..
“Before we created LetsPlott Platform, and specifically Carta, measuring large areas would require multiple professionals and an inherent risk of incorrect measurements that ultimately left you with a bunch of calculations that also had no visible context. In our digital age, we recognized an opportunity to make measuring and calculating spaces easier, interactive and more intuitive. Our award-winning tools allow users to save time, eliminate complex math and cut back on wasted materials during any job,” says David Xing, Founder of Plott. “We created a digital command center to map out a project in the palm of a user’s hands, so they can record, annotate with text, add images or video, and visualize their space in the digital form, as well as guide them with actionable, turn-by-turn directions to complete their real life projects.”
Plott’s latest hardware release, Carta, makes custom digital mapping easy with real-time visual references and accurate dimensional data to create an interactive canvas that can be read, manipulated and shared with collaborators. The digital measuring wheel captures the path a user walks, including a full perimeter and sections within a specific area, then imports the data into the LetsPlott app where instant calculations are made. Users can take their own photos of a space, or use overhead satellite images for larger projects, to accompany the data they have captured. Collaborators need not worry as Plott has made sharing projects simple, so everyone has the same accurate data, notes, and vision from concept to the real world. From there, text or video notes can be added for reference to ensure no detail is forgotten. The LetsPlott app can also calculate accurate material estimation, such as the amount of mulch for a flower bed or asphalt for a driveway. Once the design and planning are complete, Carta will help bring it to life with guidance to real world points.
The LetsPlott app and Platform is available now on iOS and Android. Carta (MSRP: $199) is available for pre-order now on www.letsplott.com, with shipping in March 2020. DIYers can also purchase the award-winning Cubit (MSRP: $110) on Amazon and at other major retailers. For more information on Plott’s award-winning technology and products, visit letsplott.com. Stay updated by following Plott on: Facebook @LetsPlott, Instagram @LetsPlott, and Twitter @LetsPlott.
About Plott
Plott creates simple, but powerful solutions for DIY projects using their award-winning Extended Reality (XR) Platform known as “LetsPlott,” which enables users to simply measure and design in the LetsPlott app. After curating the perfect space, Plott’s hardware, Cubit and Carta, is guided by a virtual layout that provides actionable, turn-by-turn directions to real world points. transforms ideas from virtual to reality.
